Biography

YUNHEE MIN received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA in 1991 and her Master of Arts from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in 2008, with additional studies in 1994 at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Her work may be found in the public collections of the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Min is an Associate Professor at the University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA and has taught at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, among other prominent universities.

Exhibitions

News

Yunhee Min artist talk at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe

21 June 2016

Yunhee Min at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe

CURATOR, Interview: Yunhee Min

May 2016

By Dan Golden

Yunhee Min is an artist based in Los Angeles. She is interested in painting as foremost a studio practice, where hands-on engagement with the material and the activity of making take priority. Although she has explored the cultural, social, and historical dimensions of signification of color in her previous work, she is currently interested in the potentialities of color as pure sensation.

Yunhee Min at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe

25 May 2016

By Bridget Gleeson

Yunhee Min is a master colorist whose signature works—often featuring geometric color blocks in rainbow hues—have graced museums and galleries across the country. Her latest paintings continue that exploration of color, this time for a solo show at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, the New York gallery now representing the Korean-born artist.

Min refers to these new paintings as “movements.” Musical terminology is certainly appropriate, since her works are ethereal and fluid, even rhythmic, like variations on a theme.

Yunhee Min at Equitable Life Building, Los Angeles, CA

ARTFORUM Review

March 2016

By Alexander Keefe

One’s initial impression of Yunhee Min’s new work, an intervention of poured paint and fluorescent light onto two long, normally transparent vitrines installed in the lobby of the Equitable Life Building—an iconic if somewhat long-in-the-tooth skyscraper in Koreatown—depended a great deal on how (or when) one first came across it. If the lights happened to be switched off (as they were at regularly timed intervals), Luminaire Delirium (Equitable Life or soft machine), 2015, displayed a milky, matte opacity, obstructing or deflecting one’s view of the vitrines’ interiors with turbulent, tainted whites, shadowed by hints of darker, more vivid colors swimming just behind. But if the cases’ hidden fluorescent tubes were set aglow, those same soured, opaque whites blazed into translucency, revealing brilliant layers of liquid color, and transforming this patch of corporate interior into a minor phantasmagoria of stained glass: Viscous, chemical yellows bled into inky blue-blacks and absinthe green; shades of red suggested a continuum between maraschino syrup and stage blood.

Yunhee Min at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

movements

5 September - 10 October 2015

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to announce, movements, Yunhee Mins fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. In her new work, Min continues to explore the sensorial potential of color, light, and gesture. Movements refers both to literal and suggested motion and change: her gestures on the canvas, the viscosity of her paint, and the way these actions combine to produce a shifting spatiality within her compositions. These paintings neither suggest infinite depth nor firmly reinforce the flatness of the support; instead there is continuous expansion of space generated by the relationship of each movement to the next.